Statements
Open letters, memoranda and coalition positions — from the 2019 passage of the Bill to the 2025 National Assembly vote.
ReCreate Statement on the National Assembly’s Passing of the Copyright Amendment Bill & Performers Protection Amendment Bill
Release date: 07 March 2024 ReCreate and our affiliated organisations of creators and users of copyright, including COSATU , SADTU , Blind SA , SAGA , Wikimedia ZA , Scholarly Horizons ,…
MEMORANDUM ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DECEMBER 10TH 2020
We are many millions of South Africans. We demand our constitutional rights! We are: Blind and Disabled Persons experiencing a book famine and the criminalisation of braille and other accessible formats, preventing us…
June 16 2020: A Sad Day for South African Youth
On June 16th we celebrate the resistance by the youth of Soweto and across South Africa to oppressive laws that limited their future education prospects based on race. In 1976 black school…
South African Communist Party Augmented Central Committee statement
6 – 8 September 2019 The SACP held its Annual Augmented Central Committee Strategic Planning Session over the weekend of September 6th to 8th in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni. This annual meeting includes a wider representation from SACP…
The Department of Trade and Industry Statement
MEDIA RELEASE 18 AUGUST 2019 PROPOSED LEGISLATION WILL BENEFIT MUSICIANS SIGNIFICANTLY – DEPUTY MINISTER GINA The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Nomalungelo Gina says the amendment of the Copyright Act…
Open letter to the President of South Africa
26 April 2019 Dear President Ramaphosa, Declaration of Support for the Copyright Amendment Bill We are writers, filmmakers, producers, photographers, actors, teachers, professors, students, learners, librarians, journalists, artists, poets, software developers, technology…
STATEMENT BY RECREATE SOUTH AFRICA ON THE PASSING OF THE COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT BILL
10 December 2018 ReCreate South Africa is a coalition of coalition of writers, filmmakers, photographers, educational content producers, software and video game developers, technology entrepreneurs, artists, poets, producers of accessible format materials…
STATEMENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH COUNCIL ON THE COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT BILL
For Immediate Release Date 18 June 2019 Protect Performers Protect our Heritage The inability of artist, musicians and creatives to benefit directly from their talents is common refrain in the South African…